Florida’s Vote Counting Controversy Spells Trouble for 2020

The midterm elections are not yet over, and neither is the acrimony.

With extremely close statewide races for governor and senator in Florida, frustration has grown over the fact that two of its largest urban counties have lagged behind the rest of the state in counting votes has boiled over, with implications for the 2020 presidential election.

The trouble started when the Florida Senate race between Democratic incumbent Sen.